Gifts Roundup: $100 Million to California Institute of Technology

A roundup of notable gifts compiled by The Chronicle:

California Institute of Technology

Intel Corporation co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife, Betty, pledged $100 million to endow the institution. The Moores said how the institute chooses to use the donation is up to its leaders, who announced the money will be used to establish a program aimed at eventually providing fellowships for every Caltech graduate student.

Moore earned a Ph.D. from Caltech in 1954 and serves on its board of trustees. He is known in tech circles for "Moore’s Law," his 1965 prediction that the number of transistors that can fit on a computer chip would double every year.